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Oracle appears to be planning the death of Java Enterprise Edition

by on04 July 2016


Community-driven tech is not where it is at

Oracle is quietly pulling funding and development efforts away from Java Enterprise Edition, in a move that mirrors Oracle’s moves in OpenSolaris and continued with OpenOffice.org.

Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE), the server-side Java technology which is an important Internet tool. The only problem is that it is not making Oracle much dosh.

While Oracle battled Google in the courts over the use of Java interfaces in Android's Dalvik programming language, Oracle's Java development efforts have slowed. According to Ars Technica Java EE has stopped completely.

Oracle has told its Java EE employees to work on other things, some of them are so miffed that they are talking about forking the project off. Oracle itself is not making any pronouncements on Java EE’s future which is making matters worse.

A group called the Java EE Guardians is now staging a public relations and petition drive seeking to pressure Oracle into either restarting development on Java EE or setting it free. Most people think that the likelihood that Oracle would part with its Java intellectual property when it hopes to make money from Google are remote.

Reza Rahman, a former Java evangelist for Oracle that left the company in March has warned that if Oracle continues to neglect Java EE, the short and long term risks for the [Java] community and industry are immense because Java and Java EE are pervasive technologies much of global IT depends.

Last modified on 04 July 2016
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